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We are happy to announce that we have been successful in winning a NSW Environmental Trust ‘Education and Training’ grant to develop an advanced curriculum in landscape rehydration, which will help practitioners gain expertise in working within larger scale settings such as whole catchments.
[Image: ANU students on an educational field trip to Mulloon Creek}
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While bushfires have impacted our ability to implement some sections of the project there is now a light at the end of the tunnel and renewed water flow in Mulloon Creek is allowing us to study its impact on the structures that have already been constructed.
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Tony Bernardi (Hydrologist) and James Diack (Science Officer) have been busy visiting and maintaining the five stream gauges we have stationed at strategic points along Mulloon Creek as part of our ongoing scientific monitoring program in the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative (MRI).
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Backpackers working at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms have taken part in a tree planting effort at the Palerang property as part of the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative, spending several days along a section of Mulloon Creek between three structures that were installed earlier this year.
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A new scientific paper is in the works and a detailed Monitoring Strategy is underway for the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative, while monitoring equipment is being sourced for the project and existing devices continue to be maintained, allowing us to keep an expert eye on changes in surface and ground hydrology.
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During May we worked hard on details for another stimulus project in Restore Australia. We are quickly coming to the pointy end of planning with the Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA), submitting project details to the funding organisation, Ark2030.
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During May we welcomed Peter Howarth OAM to the Mulloon Institute Board.
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Work continues apace at Mulloon Consulting with team members working on site assessments and preparing plans for properties across the Southern Tablelands, Southern Highlands and the Hunter Valley, and further afield in far north Queensland.
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Luke Peel (Research Coordinator) and James Diack (Science Officer) this month have been monitoring the permanent transects using Landscape Function Analysis at the Home Farm (MCNF), Mulloon Farm North and Birkenburn. A new development is the use of a plate meter to measure pasture biomass that assists with calibrating the satellite monitoring products by Cibolabs. The new drone has also been used to capture photos of the transects with excellent detail.
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Finally there is some light at the end of the tunnel with governments at both the Federal and State levels softening some restrictions. The impact of the past few months on our economy and on how we go about life will last for a very long time. But with every crisis comes opportunities. Australia's agricultural sector will be a leader in our economic recovery as food and fibre has continued to be produced.
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During April 2020, the Mulloon Institute made submissions to both the NSW Inquiry into the Bushfires and to the Federal Royal Commission. In addition, Chairman Gary Nairn made personal submissions to both Inquiries from the perspective of being the Chairman of a Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into the Australian Bushfires in 2003. That Inquiry produced a report, A Nation Charred, that including some 59 recommendations. Sadly, many of the issues raised back in 2003 were still quite relevant in relation to experiences during the 2019/2020 fires.
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Also making further progress during April was our Mulloon catchment scale project. Previously known as the Mulloon Community Landscape Rehydration Project (MCLRP), it will now be referred to as the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative (MRI). While still remaining a project, we also want to emphasise how this 'initiative' can be implemented in other landscapes across Australia.
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MCCC has also zoomed along during April (all while adhering to COVID-19 restrictions), with site visits and assessments in the Dungog, Hunter and Southern Tableland regions, farm plans completed for several private properties, plus Zoom conferences promoting our landscape rehydration services. Sam Skeat has also joined us as a Landscape Planner bringing with him specialist skills in providing grazing advice in the context of landscape rehydration. Sam will be based in Townsville. Read more
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Restore Australia is an initiative being progressed by the Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA) which has about $300M from international donors to restore degraded lands across Australia and sequester carbon over the next five years. This is significant funding directed to the Australian landscape and TMI has been privileged to be invited to participate.
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The landscape repair and rehydration concept promoted by The Mulloon Institute (TMI), a regenerative agriculture not-for-profit, is now the focus of suggested amendments to the legislative and regulatory process surrounding water and land management in NSW.
Led by TMI chairman, the Hon. Gary Nairn AO, the initial response from the NSW Government has been encouraging with ministers indicating they will 'actively' consider the proposed amendments.
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The Mulloon Institute has teamed up with David Hardwick of Soil Land Food to deliver a Planning your farm landscape course in Coolac, NSW for Muttama Landcare.
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Read our latest Enews update here: https://conta.cc/39BOPWc
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Australia really is the land of droughts and flooding rains. And it is invariably the flooding rains that bring the end to the drought - that's if the landscape can hold onto some of that precious water, rather than it otherwise scouring everything in its path as it then carries all your precious soil, nutrients and biodiversity out to sea or into the nearest reservoir.
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